Corporate

Indus, Bharucha, NDA act on Unacademy $50m stake increase

Bengaluru: Unacademy has concluded a secondary transaction round that saw Tiger Global, Dragoneer Investment Group, Steadview Capital and General Atlantic purchase $50 million-worth of shares from existing investors to increase their stake in the edtech startup. — The Economic Times IndusLaw advised...

PDS, RSCO act on Softline buy of Kolkata’s Embee Soft

Softline Group, a leading global provider of IT solutions and services, acquires Kolkata based Embee Software (“Embee”), one of India’s leading digital transformation service provider and a Microsoft LSP and Cloud solution partner. — Crn PDS Legal advised Softline Group led by a team of partner Viha...

HSA hires partner Sumit P in finance • Reg partners, Apoorva Misra, Aditya K Singh, each go independent

Independent advocate Sumit P has joined HSA Advocates as a partner in Delhi, following two partners in the firm’s regulatory practice having left the firm in the last two months.

Saraf v Luthra argue possible separation, division bench order awaited

A Delhi high court division bench has been hearing L&L Partners’ managing partner Rajiv Luthra’s appeal against the single-judge bench order reinstating the firm’s co-founder and senior partner Mohit Saraf. Both sides seemed to agree that separation was inevitable and Saraf might be paid to sta...

Trilegal expands real estate with Mridul Kumbalath (Nuals ‘08) as partner

Trilegal has elected Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Bengaluru-based partner Mridul Kumbalath as a partner in its real estate practice.

Khaitan hires Indus partner Tanu Banerjee for TMT push in Mumbai

Khaitan & Co has ramped up its technology, media and telecoms (TMT) practice in Mumbai with the hire of IndusLaw partner Tanu Banerjee.

Mirroring Rajiv Luthra ad in papers, Saraf warns public of ‘misreps’ & Delhi HC win vs co-founder

Following his victory on Monday in the Delhi high court, co-founding partner and de facto reinstated senior partner of L&L Partners, Mohit Saraf, has responded in kind to his co-founder Rajiv Luthra with a newspaper notice that of the favourable judgment and warning the public that the public should “exercise caution in dealing with Mr. Rajiv Luthra”.

IndusLaw hires Link Legal AP Pratyush Khurana

IndusLaw has hired Link Legal India Law Services associate partner Pratyush Khurana as a partner in its Delhi-based corporate team, according to a press release from the firm.

Delhi HC stays Saraf’s ouster by Rajiv Luthra for violating deed & Act by Friday • Delhi offices also shut 4 days for fumigation [UPDATE-2]

The Delhi high court has “prima facie” and “tentative[ly]” stayed the termination of senior partner Mohit Saraf’s termination from L&L Partners, the partnership he had co-founded, by managing partner Rajiv Luthra.

Luthra cap markets lateral Jitesh Shahani to leave, Dhania to rejoin as Rajiv works for new deed (with old friends)

L&L Partners capital markets lateral partner hire Jitesh Shahani has put in his resignation; meanwhile, the firm’s ex-capital markets partner Geeta Dhania, who had left the firm two months ago, is slated to return.

Young lit firm White & Brief has big ambitions with 2 lateral partners from CAM, LL & 4 more on the way

The 2018-founded Mumbai-based disputes firm White & Brief, which was started by former Ram Jethmalani junior Nilesh Tribhuvann, is going full-service and has hired two lateral partners and promoted one, with significantly more expansion pledged for the coming months and several big-name clients such as Apple and Indigo to boot.

ANM adds consultancy lawyer, ex-media-in-houser Suresh Amesar as partner

Suresh Amesar joins ANM as partner A NM Global has added Suresh Amesar as a media and entertainment practice partner. Amesar had been a partner at Azendor Consulting and Indus Lexus Consulting in Mumbai for three years previously. Before that, he’d had 13 years in-house, between Viacom 18 Media and ...

Shardul Amarchand promotes 10 to salaried partner in later, smaller round

With several months delay, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) has announced its annual partnership promotions.

AZB Delhi hires DSK infra partner Anuja Tiwari

Anuja Tiwari joins AZB from DSK A ZB & Partners Delhi has hired DSK Legal partner Anuja Tiwari as a partner in its energy and infrastructure team, according to Bar & Bench and her Linked-in profile. The 2008 CLC Delhi graduate is joining with her team of three lawyers. DSK managing partner...

HSA hires CAM corp partner Saurya Bhattacharya (NUJS ‘07) in Mumbai, to also oversee Cal-corp

HSA Advocates has hired Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) Mumbai partner Saurya Bhattacharya as a corporate partner.

Indus gets competitive again: Hires JSA Delhi’s Unnati Agrawal (ILS ‘10) as comp partner

IndusLaw has restored an essential piece of a modern full-service corporate offering, adding J Sagar Associates (JSA) principal associate Unnati Agrawal as a partner in its competition practice based in Delhi.

Juris Corp promotes KM-BD director Darshi Shah to partner with strategic remit

Darshi Shah promoted to partner focusing on client relationships, knowledge J uris Corp has promoted director Darshi Shah to “strategic business planning and legal knowledge management” partner. Shah is a qualified lawyer who specialises in transfer pricing advisory issues, but in her role she would...

SAM Delhi partner Sumeet Singh joins BharatPe as GC, vows to double size of in-house team in coming year

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi-based partner Sumeet Singh will be joining BharatPe as its new general counsel (GC), according to a press release from the company.

Chandhiok & Mahajan expands to 6, promotes Deeksha Manchanda as 2nd comp partner

Delhi-based corporate, competition and disputes firm Chandhiok & Mahajan (C&M) has promoted counsel Deeksha Manchanda to its partnership and as its second partner specialising in competition law.

Indus continues building tax story (indirectly), adds PDS director Shashi Mathews

IndusLaw has hired its second tax lateral partner with PDS Legal director Shashi Mathews having joined as a partner in its Delhi office.